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Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu) wrote:
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: Executor in its current form is simply not acceptable as a Mac substitute, and 
: it is certainly ludicrous to claim as one person did that Executor "out Macs 
: the Mac."

Give them their due, however. THat it works at all for $99 is quite amazing.

The Maelstrom issue is very simple to explain, BTW: Andrew Welch is a 
very good low-low-low level Mac programmer, and he likes to draw directly 
to the screen. Of course, this is a well-documented thing to do since 
about 1990, but the issues of big-endian vs little-endian direct-screen 
drawing are probably quite complex and it certainly makes sense that it 
would take a P90 to reverse each byte in a real-time arcade game as it is 
drawn, which is no doubt what Executor has to do to make Maelstrom run.





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